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Launched on Jan. 31, 1958, more than three months after the Soviet Union's 184-lb. Sputnik I, the 30.8-lb. Explorer had at first seemed a puny competitor for the huge Soviet satellites. But, equipped with a Geiger counter and two radio transmitters, it sent back evidence that had escaped the Russians -the data that enabled State University of Iowa Physicist James Van Allen to discover the radiation belts that bear his name...
Unwilling to wait, McCusker's team set up a more simple quark trap in a shed behind the University of Sydney's school of physics. Whenever Geiger counters detected a cosmic shower, they triggered four Wilson cloud chambers, which show the path of any ionized or charged particle that passes through them as a trail of condensed water drop lets. If a quark freed by a collision between a cosmic ray and an atmospheric atom happened to penetrate the cham ber, the physicists reasoned, it would leave a highly characteristic track...
...they share a deep concern for the state of medicine-and so do ever increasing numbers of their colleagues. "There are durned few students coming into medicine simply to collect country-club memberships," says Dr. Merrell Flair, assistant dean of Northwestern Medical School. At Tufts, Dr. H. Jack Geiger, a professor in the department of preventive medicine, estimates that 20% of medical students are activists willing to spend time on projects of liberal bent, while another 20% are sympathetic...
Last weekend, the Harvard team won the Geiger Trophy by beating six other colleges. The Crimson won 5 and lost 1, as did U.R.I., but Harvard had a larger point total. The team was divided into three crews: Doyle and Storer, Al Woodworth and Parker Jayne, and Bill Smith and Doug Allen...
...money, they spent the night in jail. The three secretaries were taken to the Women's House of Detention, where they were fingerprinted and asked to strip. A male doctor, looking for narcotics, examined them. "We were forced to assume all kinds of awkward and humiliating postures," Carole Geiger later said. Simmons, who was handcuffed and taken to the men's jail-"the Tombs"-was unable to contact his family. He claimed that when he filled out a form requesting that police call his father, a cop quipped: "Do you think these calls really go out?" Simmons...